This weekend the Catholic Church will be holding a Listening and Dialogue encounter in Mudgee as they reach the midway point of this phase of preparations for the Plenary Council in 2020.
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Everyone is invited to attend the session, which is an open and inclusive experience of listening, dialogue and discernment about the future of the Catholic Church in Australia.
The Mudgee encounter will be held at St Mary’s Parish Centre, Church Street, 2.30-4.30pm, on Saturday, November 17, 2018.
In May of this year, the Catholic Church in Australia launched the Plenary Council 2020.
Pope Francis has given his approval and blessing, allowing a three-year conversation to commence about the future shape of the church and its mission.
The first year of Plenary Council 2020 begins with a year of listening and dialogue.
It will culminate in gatherings in 2020 and 2021 to consider the church’s governance, laws and practice.
The Council organisers will take submissions from church organisations and agencies, parishes and individuals to help form an agenda.
Plenary Council facilitator, Lana Turvey-Collins, will visit the Diocese of Bathurst this weekend and facilitate the sessions.
“The discernment and listening process helps all people participate in to consider the Plenary Council’s central question: “What do you think God is asking of us in Australia at this time?” Ms Turvey-Collins said
“The Plenary Council will, like no other event in the church’s history in Australia, allow all Catholics to shape a discussion about the future of our church, Everyone’s experience of faith and the Church is unique and it’s important that the Plenary Council hears the voice of as many people as possible.”
This includes hearing from people who no longer, or may never have attended church. Input is invited from all people, from all walks of life.
